Comment on Centrists have such a Hard Choice.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A lot of centrists, are frankly, kind of weak minded. A lot are not necessarily more right leaning but they don’t exactly have strong conviction. A friend of mine is right leaning on immigration and economics but at the same time he voted for the social democrats in his country because of over a decade of right wing government and supports Palestine. Some are centrists for the sake of being centrist it seems.

  The problem as to why many centrists sound right leaning is because the right captured prominent media platforms, and a huge part of its audience are lonely folks who are susceptible to misinformation, which my friend falls into. Many don’t become firmly on right but that doesn’t matter for the right wing billionaires funding the media platforms. It’s about sowing enough doubt to prevent forming a united front against the billionaire-Epstein class.

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Encouraging people to find and listen to independent news media is one of the more effective things you can do for the resistance.

    By the way, you should add more independent news media to your news diet.

    Also, generally, if something makes you scared or mad, go online and look for other sources discussing the same story. It’ll not only provide nuance, but it’ll reveal what’s fact, and what is opinion or assertion.

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    your a centrest because your scared of taking a stance on most important questions of the current moment

    I’m a centrist because I don’t know anything about the most important questions of the current moment

    We are sort of the same

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